EFOMP Structure

EFOMP Board

President

Dr. M. Brambilla

Past President

Prof. J. Damilakis

Secretary General

Dr. J. Ptáček

Treasurer

Dr. A. Manivannan

Dr. M. Brambilla

Dr. Marco Brambilla is head of the medical physics department at the University Hospital of Novara. He is teaching medical statistics at the specialization school for medical physics at the University of Turin. Prior to this appointment, he worked from 1991 to 2000 as Medical Physicist at the Hospital of Novara, Dept. of Nuclear Medicine with special topics on calibration and quality assurance of gamma cameras and PET scanners. Since 2012 he is Secretary General of the EFOMP, in 2017 Vice President of the EFOMP and since 2018 EFOMP President, where he established from 2014 the EFOMP European School for Medical Physics Expert (ESMPE).

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Prof. J. Damilakis

John Damilakis is full professor and chairman at the Department of Medical Physics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, chairman of the Division of Radiology at the University of Crete and director of the Department of Medical Physics of the University Hospital of Heraklion, Crete, Greece. He is chairman of the International Organization for Medical Physics (IOMP) Education and Training committee and member of the Board of Directors of IMPCB (International Medical Physics Certification Board). Prof. Damilakis is coordinator or an active research member of several European and national projects. Most recent projects: EUCLID (European strudy on clinical DRLsfor X-ray Medical Imaging), EC project, Scientific Coordinator, Chair of the Executive Board, WP1, WP3 and WP5 leader, kick-off meeting September 2017 and MEDIRAD (Implications of MEDIcal Low Dose RAdiation Exposure), Horizon 2020, WP2 leader kick-off meeting June 2017.

His publications have been focused on medical dosimetry and medical radiation protection. Number of publications in PubMed: 192, number of citations 3489, h-index 31. Many of these publications are in leading journals such as Medical Physics, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Radiology, Investigative Radiology and European Radiology. John Damilakis is editor of 1 book and co-author of 2 chapters in international textbooks. He is a member of the steering committee of the ‘Inter-University Postgraduate Course in “Medical - Radiation Physics’, Greece (1998-today). He has given more than 300 invited presentations in national and international conferences including ECR, RSNA, AAPM, IOMP and EFOMP meetings. John Damilakis is past president of the Hellenic Association of Medical Physicists, Senior Editor of BJR/Case Reports, Section Editor of the European Radiology and editorial board member of several scientific journals. He has received several awards in recognition of his work in the field of Medical Physics.

Dr. J. Ptáček

Jaroslav Ptáček works as the head of the Department of Medical Physics and Radiation Protection in the University Hospital in Olomouc, Czech Republic. He is a medical physicist in nuclear medicine and focuses himself mainly on image processing, quality control and radiation protection. He is involved in teaching of medical physics and instrumentation in nuclear medicine and x-ray diagnostics in technologists education program. He is also involved in education and training of medical physicists in nuclear medicine in Czech Republic who are working on becoming qualified medical physicist. As a board member of Czech Association of Medical Physicists he is involved in professional matters of medical physicists in Czech Republic. Since 2013 he is a part of local organizing committee of ESMPE in Prague and since 2018 he is a secretary general of EFOMP.

I am currently the head of Medical Physics providing scientific management in medical physics with responsibilities for service delivery, capital finance management and service development. I lead a group of 2 clinical scientists, 19 technologists, 2 nursing assistants, 1 equipment librarian and 1 admin staff, providing Nuclear Medicine and medical equipment management services for NHS Ayrshire & Arran. I am responsible for the procurement and management of major capital equipment to a value of £2.7 million every year. Our team manages over 8000 pieces of medical equipment with a value of £42 million.

Encourages NMOs to facilitate practitioners' attainment of competence and excellence in the application of physical sciences to medicine. Responsible also for co-ordinating across the NMOs the establishment and maintenance of the means of recognition of competence and excellence of those working as Medical Physicists.

Works towards the recognition of MP as a Profession by the EU. Advises NMOs on compliance with the EFOMP Policy Statements.Provides advice and maintain statistics on Registration Schemes operated by NMOs.Advices the President when EFOMP is asked to comment on the quality of training in a country of a NMO.Liaises with other MP organisations on training.

The Projects Committee is responsible to the Council of the Federation for participating in the implementation of projects and supporting the participation of Medical Physics institutions for improving research in Medical Physics and the professional status of Medical Physicists in Europe and Internationally.

The Scientific Committee is responsible to the Council for the furtherance of the science of Medical Physics. It encourages NMOs to facilitate meetings and workshops for the exchange of information and to participate in the production of documentation relating to good practice and the advancement of Medical Physics in Europe.